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Big game parade
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 234
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland, 1926. William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack both contributed footage of large mammals to this film. This film presents little animal behavior information, but it serves as a portrait of some large North American mammals. A variety of North American mammal species are represented: pronghorn antelope, mountain sheep, caribou, buffaloes, moose, mule deer (adult and calf), black and grizzly bears (adults and cubs). Tourists at...
Dates:
1926
Bimini
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 202
Scope and Contents
The Lerner Marine Laboratory, on Bimini in the Bahamas, was established in the same year this film was made, 1948, and given to the museum by Michael Lerner. The film opens with travelogue material: markets, streets, traffic policemen, adults and children, before it moves to the research center, with views of the grounds of the center, Lerner's yacht, the Playmate, and Helen Lerner, Lerner's wife, fishing from a skiff. At the laboratory, Lerner, William King Gregory, AMNH vertebrate...
Dates:
1948
Dorothy Bliss papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B55
Scope and Contents
In the case of this collection, Scope and Content are virtually synonymous. Both words encompass Dr. Bliss's single-minded, detailed study of crustaceans in general and the land crab gecarcinus lateralis in particular. There is nothing in these papers that refers to her teaching positions or the other outside interests cited in the biographical sketch. It must be assumed that she was always careful to compartmentalize her various activities. The scope of the material starts in...
Dates:
1950-1979
Franz Boas photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Content Note
The Franz Boas Photo Collection consists mainly of photographs of Northwest Coast Natives from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition: 1897-1902, sponsored by AMNH, and the Boas Expedition to Northwest Territories in 1894. There was no original order within this collection and most of the collection is stamped with the marking, “From the Boas Collection 43.” Many other sources besides Boas contributed to this collection, including the British Columbia Provincial Museum, the Field Museum of...
Dates:
1868-1943; Majority of material found within 1894-1902
Bob Bartlett field photographic collection
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B37
Scope and Contents
Photographs include walrus hunting; Brigus, Newfoundland; many photos at sea aboard the Effie M. Morrissey; birds and nests; the S.S. Karluk and shipwreck camp in Greenland.
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
Bobb Schaeffer photographs of fossil fish specimens
Collection
Identifier: PPC .S34
Scope and Contents
Photographs of fish fossils and skeletons, also includes color positives
Dates:
undated
Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B631
Scope and Contents
Field photographs mainly of shell heaps and indigenous peoples taken during the Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition of 1931.
Dates:
1931
Brewster-Sanford Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B741
Scope and Contents
Field photographs of Brewster-Sanford Expedition to South America, mostly of boats, people, animals, and buildings.
Dates:
1912-1917
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